Reference: Life
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In the Bible, is either natural, Ge 3:17; spiritual, that of the renewed soul, Ro 8:6; or eternal, a holy and blissful immortality, Joh 3:36; Ro 6:23. Christ is the great Author of natural life, Col 1:16; and also of spiritual and eternal life; Joh 14:6; 6:47. He has purchased these by laying down his own life; and gives them freely to his people, Joh 10:11,28. He is the spring of all their spiritual life on earth, Ga 2:20; will raise them up at the last day; and make them partakers for ever of his own life, Joh 11:25; 14:19.
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He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that disobeyeth the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Truly, truly do I say to you, He that believeth hath everlasting life.
I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
and I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one tear them out of my hand.
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he have died, will live;
Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one cometh to the Father but through me.
Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye will behold me, because I live, and ye will live.
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.
I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
for in him were created all things, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things have been created through him and for him;
Easton
generally of physical life (Ge 2:7; Lu 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb 7:16); (2) conduct or manner of life (Ro 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation (Joh 3:16-17,18,36); (4) eternal life (Mt 19:16-17; Joh 3:15); of God and Christ as the absolute source and cause of all life (Joh 1:4; 5:26,39; 11:25; 12:50).
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And lo! one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have everlasting life? And he said to him, Why dost thou ask me concerning what is good? There is but one who is good. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy lifetime, and Lazarus in like manner his evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.
that every one who believeth in him may have everlasting life. For God so loved the world, that he gave the only begotten Son, that every one who believeth in him may not perish, but may have everlasting life. read more. For God sent not the Son into the world to condemn the world, but that through him the world might be saved. He that believeth in him is not condemned; he that believeth not hath already been condemned, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that disobeyeth the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
For as the Father hath life in himself, so did he give to the Son also to have life in himself.
Ye search the Scriptures, because ye yourselves think that in them ye have everlasting life; and it is they which testify of me;
Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he have died, will live;
and I know that what he hath committed to me is everlasting life. What I speak therefore, I speak as the Father hath directed me.
We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Hastings
LIFE
I. In the OT
The term 'life' in English Version is used, with a few unimportant exceptions, as the equivalent of one or other of two Heb. expressions: (1) chai, or mostly in plur. chayyim; (2) nephesh. The Septuagint makes a general distinction between these two, by usually rendering the former as z
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Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, "Thou shalt not kill; and whoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the Judges."
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we he clothed?
For strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that leadeth to life; and few are they who find it.
For strait is the gate, and narrow the way, that leadeth to life; and few are they who find it.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? and not one of them shall fall to the ground without your Father.
The Son of man came eating and drinking; and they say, Behold, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! But wisdom is justified by her works.
For whoever chooseth to save his life will lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake will find it.
For whoever chooseth to save his life will lose it; and whoever shall lose his life for my sake will find it.
And he said to him, Why dost thou ask me concerning what is good? There is but one who is good. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
And he said to him, Why dost thou ask me concerning what is good? There is but one who is good. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
And every one who hath left brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, or houses, for the sake of my name, will receive many fold more, and will inherit everlasting life.
And the king will answer and say to them, Truly do I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it to me.
For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; but whoever shall lose his life for the sake of me and of the glad tidings, will save it.
And if thy hand cause thee to fall away, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having the two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that is unquenchable.
And as he was going out into the way, a certain one running up and kneeling to him, asked him, Good teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit everlasting life?
who will not receive a hundredfold in the time that now is, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come everlasting life.
who will not receive a hundredfold in the time that now is, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come everlasting life.
And those seeds which fell among the thorns, these are they who, when they have heard, go away and are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
And a woman who had had an issue of blood twelve years, and had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be cured by any one,
For whoever chooseth to save his life, will lose it; and whoever loseth his life for my sake, he will save it.
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? and not one of them is forgotten before God.
And he said to them, Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for even when one hath great abundance, his life doth not depend upon his possessions.
But God said to him, Fool! this night will thy soul he required of thee; and whose will those things be which thou hast laid up?
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of the property that falleth to me. And he divided to them his living.
All things were made through him; and without him was nothing made that hath been made. In him is life; and the life was the light of men.
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that disobeyeth the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
but whoever drinketh of the water that I will give him, will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become within him a well of water springing up to everlasting life.
Truly, truly do I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into condemnation, but hath passed out of death into life.
Truly, truly do I say to you, He that believeth hath everlasting life.
The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundance.
He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world will keep it unto everlasting life.
And this is the everlasting life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.
And this is the everlasting life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.
nor doth he receive service at the hands of men, as though he needed anything, since it is he that giveth to all life and breath and all things.
For if by one trespass death reigned through the one man, much more will they who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.)
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is everlasting life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.
For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit life and peace.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
I have been crucified with Christ, and no longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
holding forth the word of life, that I may have whereof to boast against the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, or labor in vain.
for in him were created all things, those in the heavens, and those on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things have been created through him and for him; and he is before all things, and in him all things subsist.
For ye died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God; when Christ, our life, shall be manifested, then will ye also be manifested with him in glory.
that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
that they may teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God.
Between the street of the city and the river, on one side and on the other, is the tree of life, hearing twelve kinds of fruit, and yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
Morish
Life is that by which a created being enjoys the place in which the Creator has set it. God breathed into man's nostrils 'the breath of life; and man became a living soul.' Ge 2:7. Sin having come in, this life is forfeited and God claims it, saying, "surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." Ge 9:5. This instituted capital punishment for murder, which law has never been rescinded or altered.
Scripture recognises a difference between 'life' in a moral sense and 'existence,' as seen in the passage, "What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?" Ps 34:12. Here is a man desiring life, desiring to enjoy life. This answers the objection of those who, wishing to deny eternal punishment, say that 'living for ever' is only spoken of the Christian, as in Joh 6:51,58. True, but many other scriptures prove that the wicked will have an eternal existence.
Man, in his natural state, is regarded as morally dead in sins, and as needing to be quickened by the power of God; or as living in sins and needing to accept death in order to live in Christ, as in the Epistle to the Romans.
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eat of my bread, he will live for ever. Yea, and the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread will live for ever.